PSYCHOLOGY 100 TEST PAPER QUESTIONS ANSD SOLUTIONS RATED A
✔✔Emil Kreapelin - ✔✔1. Collected data on various kinds of pycholigcal disorders
2. began systematically classifying and diagnosing them
3. popularized the term "dementia praecox" (premature dementia) --> Later called
"Schizophrenia"
4. First to distinguish thought disordered from mood disorders of depression and bi-
polar disorder
✔✔Modern views in clinical psychology - ✔✔the idea mental disorders are simply one
form of illness and should be treated as a medical condition w/ appropriate diagnosis
and therapy
✔✔Moral treatment - ✔✔19th century approach to treating the mentally ill w/ dignity in a
caring environment
✔✔Asylums - ✔✔facilities for treating the mentally ill in Europe during the middle ages
and into the 19th century
✔✔Trephination - ✔✔-A surgery
- Usually performed by shamans
-involves drilling a small hole in a person's skull, usually less than an inch in diameter
For medical reasons:
-such as an attempt to heal a brain injury
For psychological reasons:
-To release demons and spirits that possess the afflicted person
✔✔The main difference between a clinical vs. counseling psychologist is that
counseling psychologists - ✔✔handle people w/ less severe psychological disorders
✔✔Forensic psychology - ✔✔- Fiel that blends psychology, law & criminal justice
-ex. make legal evaluations of a person's mental competency to stand trial
- ex. the fitness of a parent to have custody
,-ex. developing profiles of criminal/ the type of person who would commit a particular
crime
✔✔Sports psychology - ✔✔-the study of psychological factors in sports and exercise
- examines the psychological factors that affect performance and participation in sports
and exercise
✔✔Industrial/organizational psychology - ✔✔-applies psychological concepts and
questions to work settings
-an applied science
-involves understanding real-world rather than laboratory behavior
✔✔industrial-part of Industrial/organizational psychology - ✔✔Focuses on selecting
workers, matching employees to jobs, and evaluating job performance
✔✔organizational- part of Industrial/organizational psychology - ✔✔focuses on worker
satisfaction, performance, and productivity by examining management styles and work
environment
✔✔Educational psychology - ✔✔The study of how students learn, the effectiveness of
particular teaching techniques, the social psychology of school populations and the
psychology of teaching
✔✔health psychology - ✔✔-the study of the role psychological factos play in regards to
health and illness
ex. how stres is linked to illness and immune factors
✔✔Clinical psychology - ✔✔-the diagnosis and treatment of mental, emotional and
behavioral disorders and the promotion of psychological health
*Study of the treatment of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders and ways to
promote psychological health
-single largest subdiscipline of psychology
- is both a practice and a science
✔✔Clinical psychologist - ✔✔-conduct research and teach
-work in universities, medical settings and private practice
, ✔✔Social psychology - ✔✔-the study of how living amoung others influences thoughts,
feelings, and behavior
-consideres how the real or imagines presences of other influences, thought, feeling
and behavior
-How does the presences of other people change an individual's thoughts, feelings or
perceptions?
✔✔Personality psychology - ✔✔-the study of what makes people unique and the
consistencies in people's behavior across time and situations
-addresses questions such as whether our personal traits and dispositions change or
stay the same from infancy to childhood to adulthood
✔✔Behavioral neuroscience - ✔✔-the study of the links among brain, mind and
behavior
-one can study brain functions involved in learning, emotion, social, behavioral and
mental illness etc.
-is a subdiscipline of biological psychology
✔✔Biological psychology - ✔✔-the study of the connections between bodily systems
and chemicals and their relationship to behavior and thought
-researches all areas of connection between bodily systems and chemical and their
relationship to behavior and thought
ex. the effects of stress on hormones and behavior
✔✔developmental psychology - ✔✔-the study of how thought and behavior change and
show stability across the life span
-shows organisms change and grow
ex. how do our reasoning skills or emotional skills change as we age?
How does parent-infant bonding affect adult relationships?
✔✔cognitive psychology - ✔✔The study of how people:
-how we perceive information
-how we learn and remember
✔✔Emil Kreapelin - ✔✔1. Collected data on various kinds of pycholigcal disorders
2. began systematically classifying and diagnosing them
3. popularized the term "dementia praecox" (premature dementia) --> Later called
"Schizophrenia"
4. First to distinguish thought disordered from mood disorders of depression and bi-
polar disorder
✔✔Modern views in clinical psychology - ✔✔the idea mental disorders are simply one
form of illness and should be treated as a medical condition w/ appropriate diagnosis
and therapy
✔✔Moral treatment - ✔✔19th century approach to treating the mentally ill w/ dignity in a
caring environment
✔✔Asylums - ✔✔facilities for treating the mentally ill in Europe during the middle ages
and into the 19th century
✔✔Trephination - ✔✔-A surgery
- Usually performed by shamans
-involves drilling a small hole in a person's skull, usually less than an inch in diameter
For medical reasons:
-such as an attempt to heal a brain injury
For psychological reasons:
-To release demons and spirits that possess the afflicted person
✔✔The main difference between a clinical vs. counseling psychologist is that
counseling psychologists - ✔✔handle people w/ less severe psychological disorders
✔✔Forensic psychology - ✔✔- Fiel that blends psychology, law & criminal justice
-ex. make legal evaluations of a person's mental competency to stand trial
- ex. the fitness of a parent to have custody
,-ex. developing profiles of criminal/ the type of person who would commit a particular
crime
✔✔Sports psychology - ✔✔-the study of psychological factors in sports and exercise
- examines the psychological factors that affect performance and participation in sports
and exercise
✔✔Industrial/organizational psychology - ✔✔-applies psychological concepts and
questions to work settings
-an applied science
-involves understanding real-world rather than laboratory behavior
✔✔industrial-part of Industrial/organizational psychology - ✔✔Focuses on selecting
workers, matching employees to jobs, and evaluating job performance
✔✔organizational- part of Industrial/organizational psychology - ✔✔focuses on worker
satisfaction, performance, and productivity by examining management styles and work
environment
✔✔Educational psychology - ✔✔The study of how students learn, the effectiveness of
particular teaching techniques, the social psychology of school populations and the
psychology of teaching
✔✔health psychology - ✔✔-the study of the role psychological factos play in regards to
health and illness
ex. how stres is linked to illness and immune factors
✔✔Clinical psychology - ✔✔-the diagnosis and treatment of mental, emotional and
behavioral disorders and the promotion of psychological health
*Study of the treatment of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders and ways to
promote psychological health
-single largest subdiscipline of psychology
- is both a practice and a science
✔✔Clinical psychologist - ✔✔-conduct research and teach
-work in universities, medical settings and private practice
, ✔✔Social psychology - ✔✔-the study of how living amoung others influences thoughts,
feelings, and behavior
-consideres how the real or imagines presences of other influences, thought, feeling
and behavior
-How does the presences of other people change an individual's thoughts, feelings or
perceptions?
✔✔Personality psychology - ✔✔-the study of what makes people unique and the
consistencies in people's behavior across time and situations
-addresses questions such as whether our personal traits and dispositions change or
stay the same from infancy to childhood to adulthood
✔✔Behavioral neuroscience - ✔✔-the study of the links among brain, mind and
behavior
-one can study brain functions involved in learning, emotion, social, behavioral and
mental illness etc.
-is a subdiscipline of biological psychology
✔✔Biological psychology - ✔✔-the study of the connections between bodily systems
and chemicals and their relationship to behavior and thought
-researches all areas of connection between bodily systems and chemical and their
relationship to behavior and thought
ex. the effects of stress on hormones and behavior
✔✔developmental psychology - ✔✔-the study of how thought and behavior change and
show stability across the life span
-shows organisms change and grow
ex. how do our reasoning skills or emotional skills change as we age?
How does parent-infant bonding affect adult relationships?
✔✔cognitive psychology - ✔✔The study of how people:
-how we perceive information
-how we learn and remember
